Siegmund Dieter Puppe (16 December 1930 – 13 August 2005''Mathematik in der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften''
2014, pg. 60) was a German

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

who worked in

algebraic topology Algebraic topology is a branch of mathematics that uses tools from abstract algebra to study topological spaces. The basic goal is to find algebraic invariant (mathematics), invariants that classification theorem, classify topological spaces up t ...

differential topology In mathematics, differential topology is the field dealing with the topological properties and smooth properties of smooth manifolds. In this sense differential topology is distinct from the closely related field of differential geometry, which ...

and

homological algebra Homological algebra is the branch of mathematics that studies homology (mathematics), homology in a general algebraic setting. It is a relatively young discipline, whose origins can be traced to investigations in combinatorial topology (a precurs ...

. He is known for the Puppe sequence in algebraic topology.

Life

Dieter Puppe was born the son of the lawyer Siegmund Puppe. The mathematician Volker Puppe (born 1938) and the legal scholar Ingeborg Puppe (born 1941) were his siblings. From 1948 he studied physics and mathematics in

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and from 1951 at

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. In 1954 he received his doctorate under

Herbert Seifert Herbert Karl Johannes Seifert (; 27 May 1907, Bernstadt – 1 October 1996, Heidelberg) was a German mathematician known for his work in topology. Biography Seifert was born in Bernstadt auf dem Eigen, but soon moved to Bautzen, where he atte ...

(''On the homotopy of images of a polyhedron''.

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Bd. 61, 1954, S. 303). From 1951 he was an assistant in Heidelberg and after his habilitation in 1957, a lecturer. In 1960 he became a professor in

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. In 1968 he returned to Heidelberg, where he stayed until his retirement in 1996, apart from guest stays at the

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in Princeton in 1957/58, in

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in 1961, and in

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in 1966/67. Puppe worked on

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(with Martin Kneser as early as the 1950s) and

homotopy theory In mathematics, homotopy theory is a systematic study of situations in which Map (mathematics), maps can come with homotopy, homotopies between them. It originated as a topic in algebraic topology, but nowadays is learned as an independent discipli ...

. From 1972 he was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. In 1962 he gave a lecture at the

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(''Korrespondenzen in abelschen Kategorien''). His students included Tammo tom Dieck, Hans-Werner Henn, and Rudolf Fritsch.

Works

* with Hans-Berndt Brinkmann: ''Kategorien und Funktoren'' (= ''

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.'' 18). Springer, Berlin u. a. 1966. * ''Stabile Homotopietheorie I.'' In: ''

Mathematische Annalen ''Mathematische Annalen'' (abbreviated as ''Math. Ann.'' or, formerly, ''Math. Annal.'') is a German mathematical research journal founded in 1868 by Alfred Clebsch and Carl Neumann. Subsequent managing editors were Felix Klein, David Hilbert, ...

.'' Bd. 169, Nr. 2, 1967
S. 243–274
* ''Einhängungssätze im Aufbau der Homotopietheorie.'' In: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung.'' Bd. 71, 1969
S. 48–54
* with Hans-Berndt Brinkmann: ''Abelsche und exakte Kategorien, Korrespondenzen'' (= ''Lecture Notes in Mathematics.'' 96). Springer, Berlin u. a. 1969. * with Tammo tom Dieck, Klaus Heiner Kamps: ''Homotopietheorie'' (= ''Lecture Notes in Mathematics.'' 157). Springer, Berlin u. a. 1970, (originated by a lecture by Puppe at the University of Minnesota 1966/67). * with Hans-Werner Henn: ''Algebraische Topologie.'' In: Gerd Fischer, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Winfried Scharlau,

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(Hrsg.): ''Ein Jahrhundert Mathematik 1890–1990. Festschrift zum Jubiläum des DMV'' (= ''Dokumente zur Geschichte der Mathematik.'' 6). Vieweg, Braunschweig u. a. 1990, , S. 673–716.

Literature

''Puppe, Dieter.''
In: Dagmar Drüll: ''Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon.'' Bd. 3, Heidelberg 2009, S. 476.

References

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Puppe, Dieter 1930 births 2005 deaths 20th-century German mathematicians

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